Membrane-based Organic Solvent Separations

This session invites both computational and experimental abstracts focused on membrane materials and processes specifically designed for solute-selective separations (ion-ion, organic-organic, etc.) for both gas and liquid feeds. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the design and synthesis of novel polymeric and/or inorganic membranes, structure-property relationships that drive high selectivity, thermodynamics of solute-membrane interactions, kinetics of solute diffusion in membranes, in-depth characterization of solute selectivity, and mechanistic insights to selectivity. Relevant application areas may include rare gas separations, organic solvent reverse osmosis, ion-ion separations in resource recovery, among others.